Quality assurance in design: Quality Assurance has been defined by the B.S.I. as ‘all those planned and systematic actions necessary to provide adequate confidence that a structure, system or component will perform satisfactorily in service’. This important topic will be of particular interest to those engaged in the chemical, process, petroleum, nuclear, power production and civil engineering industries. Quality Assurance in Design take the form of a collection of papers given by leading experts at the Joint IMechE/IChemE Symposium. University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology 23 February 1982 Mechanical Engineering Publications Limited London 1982 Price U.K. £11 abroad £14